Famous Quotes & Sayings

Having said that, however, I should note that the current downturn in this sector is an unusually mild one compared with previous cycles.

Historically, in the recruitment area, we have done very little. We are new to the game compared to other institutions.

Avril Lavigne

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

I don't think it's kosher to compare with the fourth quarter of last year because that was an entirely different price environment.

For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15 percent of our revenue. This compares to Dell revenue of $570 million in 2004, which was about 11 percent of our total revenue.

For the year, sales to Dell were $782 million and represented 15% of our revenue. This compares to Dell revenue of $570 million in 2004, which was about 11% of our total revenue.

For what we could control, we couldn't be happier. We had six rainouts compared to one last year.

For whatever reason, we seem to play the better teams tough. It seems that we match up well with teams that have systems compared to teams that are just running around.

Given the strong consumer sentiment, merchants have been offering much smaller discount or even no discount compared with last year.

John Smith

GM's February sales improved nicely compared to last month and the prior year, giving us momentum as we move into the spring selling season,

There is a noticeable difference compared to the engines we've been running before.

Jim Haslett

We lost one game and this team's overcome a lot in the last month, so that one game is nothing compared to what we've had to overcome,

Pete Carroll

Huge difference. You can't even compare it. He took over a program that he knew going in was going to take some time.

How would you compare your style to Randy Johnson's?

I actually tried to compare it to any other situation where leadership is lost. At the beginning, there's a sense of shock, and a lack of purpose. We haven't talked about the outside things, all we've talked about is Christopher all week. Yesterday and (Thursday) we've had good practices, and I think we're really focused, considering everything.

Tomas Berdych

I was surprised about the first two sets because Ivan played different tactics compared to the other two matches he played when he won. But I expected him to play better and even though three match points went I knew it wasn't the end.

Denise Richards

I would be so lucky to be compared to her, ... I could never live up to that, though.

Julia Mancuso

I got my first Olympic race out of the way with the downhill, so my nerves aren't anything compared to that.

Sergio Garcia

If they compare you with a good player, that means that you have something in your game.

If they haven't put up with pressure, the pressure's going to be a whole other element. So we want to put that pressure on them now. ... Gassers are really nothing compared to a loss.

Mark Warner

If they want to compare how things are going in Washington versus how things are going in Virginia, I'll take that comparison every day of the week,

He was denied a fair jury; he was denied a fair trial. This is a man who, as a result of a tainted jury in this case, is being compared to O.J. Simpson ... We're talking about this man's legacy.

He has great speed for us compared to last year. That allows us to do some different things in the secondary. We are very pleased with him. He is very intelligent and just a quality young man.

Mark Phillips

He had gained a lot of weight and he had some tendonitis problems. We dealt with it the next year. Compared to what he ran before he didn't run all that fast.

He doesn't compare me to Ray, but he uses him to make me hungry. He'll talk about how Ray stays in the film room and says, 'If you want to be that, that's what you've got to do.' Maybe that explains his style.

Mack Brown

Henry Melton made some really good, physical runs today and has a couple of other days as well. It will be a hard decision to see how much he plays defense compared to offense because we liked the way he looked (on offense). He's in better shape. He's running with lower pads. He made a couple of really key runs today.

We can empathize with our own law enforcement brothers. I don't think we could ever compare our tragedy to their catastrophe.

Today it felt like I skied, compared to the last two days.

There is no dilemma compared with that of the deep-sea diver who hears the message from the ship above, "Come up at once. We are sinking.

When I compared the two schools, here the faculty had a much stronger emphasis on environmental education. I'm very glad I picked here.

Dan Gilroy

One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.

Geno Auriemma

Obviously, you can?t discount how much (Diana) meant because nobody?s ever meant more to any team than Diana has meant to this group of kids. So if you want to compare them to Diana, they fall short, but so does everybody else.

Of course, one million compared with Palm's 15 million makes its own statement. Who do you want to party with?